The New Hotness

So as not to bury the lede:

The model is the Steampunk Octopus (in retrospect, the lower-vertex NixFix version should print better with its under-engine braces). The tests were to see how well its articulated tentacles printed and whether I understood how PrusaSlicer’s Multimaterial Painting worked. The answers: “Perfectly” and “Undo is my copilot”.

They’re both in PETG, with the orange eyes & features painted onto the STL model using the Smart Fill tool type to select surface facets joined within a given angle. Getting that right requires some fiddling, because you (well, I) can inadvertently select & flood a nearby area.

With Halloween fast approaching, they should be useful:

Readers of long memory will recognize the doorbell button.

The albino Steamopus looks downright weird:

Only the delivery folks have seen them so far …